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On Wednesday at about 5:35 p.m., Menlo Park police went to a home on the 900 block of Valparaiso Avenue after receiving a report about a death there. They arrived to find a woman who was unresponsive; she was declared deceased at the scene by medical staff from the Menlo Park Fire Protection District.

The victim was identified as Kathleen Anne Hughes Anderson, 62, of Menlo Park, by the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office on Friday morning. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe confirmed that Anderson lived at the residence where she was killed.

The investigation determined that Anderson “was murdered by stabbing with an instrument, other than a knife,” police said in a press release. On Friday, Wagstaffe added that the woman received several injuries in the attack and that one particular wound from a “sharp instrument” to her head could have caused her death. Several sharp instruments were discovered at the scene and investigators are still trying to determine which contributed to her death.

Police say Wolke was located and arrested at the scene and booked into San Mateo County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder. Wolke also had an outstanding arrest warrant out of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office for prowling and possession of narcotics, stemming from a case in 2014, authorities said.

Mark Gomez has worked for the Mercury News since 1992, including the past ten years as a reporter on the breaking news/public safety team. He is a South Bay native and graduate of San Jose State University.

Jason Green is a breaking news reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He works week nights and spends most of his time covering crime and public safety. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara and the University of Southern California, he cut his teeth at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and the Palo Alto Daily News, and has been with the Bay Area News Group since its inception.

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